Guardian of the remember, after a life spent in the field of fighters. It was political, communist, intellectual, but above all Neapolitan: his love for Health district, per Totò, for the city, he had also made him assign the delegation to “memory” as a city councilor. Francesco Ruotolo, 74 years old, is dead Sunday 15 November at the hospital Cardarelli of Naples, where he had been hospitalized after his condition was rapidly deteriorating due to the Covid-19. To make the announcement of his disappearance, the companions of Communist Refoundation and the inhabitants of the Sanità district. In one of the latest messages sent to friends from the hospital, from the Covid department, Ruotolo wrote: “Here it looks like a group ofDante’s Hell, screams and moans are heard ”.
Lots of battles carried on by Ruotolo. In the the nineties, among the many remember the fight against the “gut-Naples” project by Paolo Cirino Pomicino and the denunciation of “Vele” by Scampia. Then, from regional councilor and member of the management board of the health unit, denounced the scandal of the medicine dies, which resulted in several convictions. In recent years, he had devoted himself to the problems of ward Health: the title of a bridge to the partisan Maddalena Cerasuolo, which thanks to Ruotolo today bears that name, the reopening of the hospital San Gennaro of the poor, the restoration of bus that connect the neighborhood with the area of Piazza Cavour, la library neighborhood.
“The cursed Covid took our comrade Francesco Ruotolo away from us,” he commented Maurizio Acerbo, national secretary of Rifondazione. “He was hospitalized in delay. After going to the emergency room, he was sent home. When he was hospitalized too many days had passed and Covid had already hit him heavily, ”he accused. “Man of the Resistance, anti-fascist, lover of Naples, always at the forefront of the fight for the rights “, is the message of the mayor Luigi de Magistris.
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